Francois angilard



@auch i `faire stwt @time F'nANois ANGILARD, or ROYAN, FRANCE.

' Letters Patent No. 68,027, clatefl August 27, 1867. i

IMPROVEMENT IN FISH-BOOKS.

TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY GONCERN:

Be it knownthat I, FRANCOIS ANGILARI), of Royan, in the department of Charent-e Iuferieure, in the Empire of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fishing-Hoeksg and I lo hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof. v

My hook has two branches, peculiarly arranged, and operating together in such a manner that a pullonv the lower er main hook drawsdown the upper branch or auxiliary hook se as to cause both hooks to engage the ish. The upperl branch is held in position iintil the fish bites by means of a spring-clamp having'just sufficient "force to resist the weight and the ordinary agitation of the hook, but opposing so slight a resistance to the descent of the upper branch that it is operated the instant any sensible pull is made, either rby the action of the ish in drawing downward on the hook or by the action of the fishermanA in pulling'upwardon the line.

I will first proceed to describe what I )consider the bestV means of carrying out mylinvention, and will `afterwards designate the points which I believe to be new. The accompanying drawings form apart of this specification. A

. Figure l represents the entire hoek set in a position for shing.

Figure 1 t is a view of the spring-catch detached. i t

Figure 2 represents the hook with the-two branches inthe position which they tend to-assuine after a iish hasbit. y

Figure 3 is aside View of the upper branch detached. Y

Figure 4 is anedge view of thc lower branch with the spring attached.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

The lower brancher main' hook is represented by a. Its upper extremity has a 4short offset or bent end, in which a hole, c, is produced. The line Z is reve through this hole e, exitendedfdow'n, and. reve through another hole, 0,*in the shank of Athe hook, and is thence extended' upward to be attached Vto thcfupper branch in the manner represented. Theupper branch is represented lby f. It is hinged to thejmain -h'ook'a .by the rivet 6,

and receives the line by means of the eye g, and is supported in the elevatedl position by means of the `springclamp c, all-very clearly represented in the drawings. f

l The bait' is ixed o'n the main hook a in the manner which will Vbe obvious. On the fish seizing it., the pull on this hook down, orion the line Z upward, er1-on both atv the saine' mmcnt, draws down the uppcrhoolc, the line Zpulling through the hele lein the manner ofa pulley, as will be obvious. The iish thus caughtbetWeen the points of the two hooks is pretty certainto be retained. On securing theriish the hooks are disengaged in the ordinary manner, and reset in the position indicated in iig. 1; after which the bait is again adjusted, and the hookzis again carefully lowered into the water.

Havinff now full described m invention what `I claiin as new and desire to secure bv Letters Patent is` a v 7 p a as follows:

l. I claiin, in fish-hooks, the arrangementl of the line Zand holes e o, relatively to the two branches af,

jointedtogether at the point b above the hole o, substantially as and for the purpose herein speciiied. v 2l I claim, in connection with the above, the spring-catch e, arranged as specified, adapted to hold up the hinged branch f of a double-branched ishwhook, and to release it with avery slight pull on the line Al, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANGILARD FRANCOIS.

VVlitncsses:

GAILLARD. t G. BAnAL, Jr. 

